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The corridle is so damn long!! I wanted to cry, but when does this end? And where is Morias? I've been running for something like five minutes, the faint light coming through the door is just about fifty ft ahead of me, and it remained so for like an eternity!

Sweating and breathing heavily, I slowed my pace, only to immediately speed up out of desperation. God help me, please, God help me! What is happening here? Why cannot I reach the goddamn door??!

Darkness is all about me, snickering and winking. I felt their belittling and mocking. Angerily, I struck my sword into the dark "Shut up you bastards!" The sword hit the wall and sparkled current for less than a brief second, the sound ring loudly around me. Down behind the corridle, I heard it echoing back through the endless darkness, and with it came the low, uncomprehensible voices. This time it is no trick, I hear it! The gloom, mumbling voices felt so near as if they are talking beside my ear, but the language was so foreign... I stood in place, looking into the dark, the hair on my back stood up. I hear my own heartbeat, booming thunderously in my body

"quiet, quiet please, be quiet" I mentally begged to my heart "just be quiet... please, I beg you, be quiet... please, ■■■■■■■ be quiet!!!"

For an eternity I stood still, but nothing happened. The torch on my hand is burning low. I bitted my lips so hard I could taste the blood, the pain brought some sense into me. "dont stop, run" I tell myself "don't stop, run, just run, start now! run! run! the door is just behind you, run!" with a yelp, I turned and resumed running, then i stepped on something, tripped and fell

The torch hit the floor, the flames jumpped in protest for a brief second, then die down rapidly...

through the dim light, I saw a body laying on the ground on his stomache. It is Morias! "Morias? is that you?" I couldn't believe my eyes! "Morias, you ok? answer me, answer me please!"

The body flinched, and Morias turned his face to see me. The last beam of the torch died out as I saw a battered and scared face smiling at me, one eyeball dropping out of his skull, greenish and grey liqor tainted the decayed blood-covering facial muscle.

I screamed, but I couldn't hear my own voice. Sword slashing wildly, I stumbled on my feet. Feeling something grabbed my foot, I kicked and stepped and smashed whatever it was. I ran, towards the door I ran, that was all I had in mind. I ran, I ran, I ran away from whatever that thing was, I ran in darkness, endless darkness, endless corridle... I ran...